Re: [xsl] special character encoding, two problems

Subject: Re: [xsl] special character encoding, two problems
From: "Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:55:53 -0000
On 15 October 2014 21:23, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It also shouldn't matter how the characters are encoded if the XML
> document is otherwise a Unicode document (e.g., encoded in UTF-8 or
> UTF-16).
>

XML requires Unicode (neither "if" nor "otherwise"). The encoding is not
necessarily one of the UTF-*-encodings, which, I'm sure, the "e.g." was not
meant to imply.

I also wonder about the requirement to have numeric entities in hex. Weird.
-W

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